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Sea Fern Fringe
Hymenena ruthenica
Authority:
(Postels et Ruprecht) Zinova
North Pacific Distribution:
Bering Sea and Aleutian Is. to Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska; Russia.
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Description:
Thallus is a thin, papery blade of deeply lacerated, wedge-shaped segments to at least 20 cm (8 in) in height and 3 cm (1.2 in) wide. Blades are frequently fertile, with either cystocarpic bumps or small, elliptical tetrasporangial sori. Habitat: This species is often epiphytic on Neoptilota asplenioides as well as other algae in the low intertidal and subtidal of semi-exposed habitats. Similar taxa: Callophyllis, Kallymeniopsis, Palmaria.
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